Mark Dunn
This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Music companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Music industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Canada Music Startups
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LANDR
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LANDR is a company that empowers musicians to create and get heard.
Voices
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Voices is the #1 creative services marketplace, connecting brands with the professional creative talent they need.
Stingray
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Stingray Business is a leader in the field of media solutions, including commercial music, digital innovations & in-store audio advertising.
Beatdapp
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Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real time.
AmpMe
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AmpMe is the most portable sound system allowing you to stream music anywhere. Play music and turn your iOS and Android phones.
ole
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ole is a rights management company that provides the entertainment industry with IP acquisitions and creative development services.
Calm Radio
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Calm Radio is the world’s largest music streaming company focused on calm, relaxing music with over 260 channels.
ORA Graphene Audio Inc.
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Advanced Nanomaterials for High Performance Loudspeakers
Synervoz Communications
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Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Nettwerk Music Group
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Nettwerk Music Group provides synchronization, co-writer, and other publishing activities for North American artists and writers.
SiriusXM Canada
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SiriusXM Canada is a Canadian radio channel broadcasting satellite radio channels featuring premier sports, news, entertainment, and more.
Byta
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The platform for music before it’s on streaming services
LUCID, Inc.
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LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
FIX
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FIX is an aggregated API platform empowering music fans to take in their daily musical content in one simple solution.
Royaltymine
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Royaltymine is a music fundraising/investment platform.
Mass Fidelity
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Mass Fidelity is a technology company that delivers beautifully designed and inventive audio products.
Marcato Digital Solutions
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Marcato Digital Solutions has developed a fully integrated scalable web-based management service.
Listn
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Share and listen to your friends’ music, free no matter where you listen to your music.
Entertainment One
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Entertainment One is an online platform that provides its users with media content.
StreamTheWorld
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StreamTheWorld is a streaming technology and services company allowing radio and TV broadcasters to generate online revenue.
Rave Inc.
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Rave is a new way to watch videos, listen to music, and hang out with friends.
SWFTCharge
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Eliminating low battery anxiety at music festivals, concerts and live events!
Wavo.me
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Advanced Analytics for Music Professionals. Make your marketing predictable and scaleable with Wavo.
iConnectivity
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iConnectivity develops hardware for musicians that introduces new music creation models.
Medly Labs
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Medly takes a new approach to the way music is made, letting both seasoned and new musicians make epic music.
Canadian Independent Music Association
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Canadian Independent Music Association connect Canadian music professionals with other industry professionals around the world.
Experience Headphones
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Specializing in high fashion headphones and designer accessories. We bring a fully integrative Retail 2.
180 Drums
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180 Drums is an online video tutorial that teaches drum lessons for the drummers.
Backstageplay
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Backstageplay is a gamification platform that marries the vastly popular and lucrative world of online gaming with artists.
Singspiel
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Singspiel is an e-learning platform offering software to help the music education community.
OVO Sound
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OVO Sound is a Canadian record label founded by rapper Drake.
Bandzoogle
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Band websites that work + Direct-to-fan marketing and commerce tools. All day, and all of the night. Check out http://bandzoogle.com/blog
BlogTo
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Toronto’s source for local news and culture, restaurant reviews, event listings and the best of the city.
KAMLOOPS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Kamloops is a major music organization in Kamloops region that organize orchestra and educational programs.
Cardinote
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We made Tabophone: a guitar pickup that writes music for you automatically!
Renaissance
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Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Sumbola
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Sumbola is a cloud-based transmedia publishing platform for content creators to develop, share and sell their digital creations.
LyricFind
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LyricFind aggregates licensing and content for the use of song lyrics in digital applications.
Collective Arts brewing Limited
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Collective Arts is a beer company fusing the craft of brewing with the talents of emerging artists, musicians, photographers & filmmakers.
TuneStars
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TuneStars is a new social media platform to help music artists, fans, and executives meet, create, and discover the world’s best music.
Premiumbeat.com
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Premiumbeat.com is a royalty free, online music library providing sounds effects and music for consumers to use.
Bluesound
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Bluesound is a company that makes a home wireless system into a home theater for music players.
VOISE
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VOISE a blockchain powered anonymous decentralized platform with personalized token based on Ethereum’s.
Tradable Bits
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Know Your Fans, Market Smarter. Tradable Bits is the leading fan-based marketing platform for music and sports.
Audible Reality
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Audible Reality connects the world with unique, personalized and shared sound experiences through proprietary AI-driven 3D audio technology.
Sodatone
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Large-scale analytics platform for the music industry.
AGNT
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AGNT is a digital booking platform that provides access to thousands of real DJs & a suite of tools that manages every stage of the booking.
SKIO Music
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A legal collaboration platform and licensing marketplace for the music industry.
Hitlab
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Hitlab is a tech media company employing pattern-matching technology to connect artists with fans.
MDIIO
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MDIIO is connecting songwriters to the music industry to help them collaborate, manage, and earn royalties on their music.
Hypetroop
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Hypetroop is a social network platform for creative professionals.
HipHopDX
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HipHopDX is an online source for Hip Hop news, interviews, music, and reviews as well as videos and mixtapes updated daily.
Notetracks Inc.
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Notetracks is a workflow and productivity tool for music creators and collaborators.
SOCAN
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SOCAN, the member-based organization that represents the performing rights of more than four-million music creators and publishers.
RedPine
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RedPine is an application specially designed and developed for artists to manage and organizes their own shows and concerts.
Fan.si
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Fan.si is a platform allowing fans to support artists and artists to deeply engage with fans.
Derivative
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Derivative is a software company that offers TouchDesigner, a visual development platform.
Monstercat
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Monstercat is a Canadian-based independent electronic dance music record label located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
MetroLyrics
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MetroLyrics is a song lyrics website that houses a searchable database of licensed song lyrics across all genres.
AVS Forum
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AVS Forum is an online community and platform that is focused on home-based audio and video entertainment.
Newfoundland Capital
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One of Canada’s leading radio broadcasters with 101 broadcast licences (72 radio stations and 29 repeating signals) across Canada.
RX MUSIC
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RX Music is a consultancy service for experience-driven brands providing Licensed Music for Business, Curation, AV Design & Integration
Groupe V Média
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Groupe V Média is a entertainment and content delivery company.
FANS Entertainment
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FANS Entertainment is creating a new dimension for live entertainment promoters to connect to their fans.
Sessionwire Communications
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Sessionwire seeks to connect music makers, and their music making software, in a live, worldwide, studio-like environment.
Upscale Technology
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Software tools that help musicians and sound engineers making performances sound great!
Tunezy
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Tunezy is a social platform for emerging and independent musicians to reach the community and collaborate with fans.
LMK Technologies, LLC
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Chunky’s Cinema Pub is an entertainment company that organizes functions, birthday parties, and corporate functions.
Greencopper
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Greencopper offers innovative technologies for music festivals and venues. Greencopper powers apps + web embeds for over 300 festivals.
PetBot
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Innovative entertainment gadget for the whole family and their pets
Banger
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BANGER is the world’s preeminent creator of Heavy Metal content.
Cargoh.com
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Cargoh is a curated social marketplace for indie creative with a focus on art, design and indie culture.
Riff
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Riff builds a robo-adviser that provides growth plans to musicians, connects them with industry contacts & gives access to a platform.
Metatube
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Metatube allow users, to create one of the most awesome video streaming communities.
JamCam
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Capture and share life’s musical moments, in short looping videos.
Nelvana Digital
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Award-winning interactive studio specializing in the creation of premier online
Mixonset
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Mixonset is an AI and professional DJ expertise company.
MOKO
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The first ever streaming app for Afro-Caribbean and World music.
Long & McQuade Musical Instruments
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For more than 80 years our firm has specialized in personal injury, property and insurance related claims on behalf of both individuals.
TicketBreak
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TicketBreak, the ticketing service company owned by MapleCore Ltd., a leading Canadian independent music company.
SkreemR Search
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SkreemR is an MP3 search engine allowing users to search the web for music downloads, podcasts, ringtones, remixes and other music content.
JAM Industries
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JAM Industries is serving the professional audio, musical instruments and consumer electronics product sectors.
PushLife
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Pushlife is a mobile commerce platform for mobile operators.
Sworly
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Sworly offers a community-based platform that enables its users to find, listen, and share music playlists.
Spliqs Intelligent Media
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Spliqs is an application that enables users to create music.
Hype Entertainment
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Calgary DJ company Hype Entertainment offers professional wedding DJ services, corporate event DJs, bar DJs and music trivia hosting.
Shambhala Music Festival
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Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets.
Hillydilly
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Hillydilly.com is a website dedicated to unearthing new music, pushing only the best, and ultimately, connecting the average music fan.
Casa Blanca Media
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Casablanca provide domestic and foreign music publishing administration services to copyright owners around the globe.
Groove (dba Zikera)
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Groove (dba Zikera) is a music service that powers music recommendations and generates personalized playlists using machine-learning.
Frettable
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Frettable is a company that provides tool to transform audio to sheet music.
Yangaroo
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Yangaroo offers business-to-business delivery solutions for the music and advertising industries.
Bopper
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Bopper, the only music discovery and live licensing platform created specifically for Ad Pros
PianoShelf
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Social platform + sheetmusic for piano players.
Entertainment One- Music
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Entertainment One is an online platform that provides its users with media content.
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